[Zanshin]

I posted some details here after it happened and didn't want to repeat myself. I found the boat unsteerable and trailing warps (and pails) while motoring didn't keep me going where I wanted to either. In the end I drifted over a 70 foot deep shoaling area and dropped the hook and rather than remove an inner door on the boat and rig a starboard or similar rudder system I was able to use VHF to arrange a tow. Unfortunately, this coincided with another boat mayday situation with a child lost overboard and as I was in no danger there were no resources free for a day. It was rather uncomfortable to be at anchor in the open water, but that was all. The tow (to Virgin Gorda) showed how unstable fin-keeled boats are without the balance of a ruuder - despite dragging all of my unused spare line and docking lines and buckets and dinghy off the aft end of the boat it still swung around 180 degrees during the tow.